SATA HDD on Perc 6/IR
Hi there, I'm having trouble with a Perc 6/IR in my R410 - it won't recognize any SATA drives. I've tried with SSD drives as well as the Seagate Barracuda drive that came with the server. All drives...
View ArticlePowerEdge T110 II SATA RAID5
Hello community.I have purchased a used P110II. It seems to work fine, and now I want to upgrade it. It came with a PERC H200A controller. I suppose this one does not support RAID5 (or 6). So I need a...
View Article32-bit Server Diagnostic Tools Power Edge 2900
I have a RAID drive in a predictive failure state (flashing green/amber lights). When I startup repair and diagnostic tools it splashes on the screen for two seconds and disappears.I have downloaded...
View ArticleH700 test gone wrong?
Hello all,We recently got an H700 raid controller and set up 4 2tb drives in a raid 10 configuration. Installed Esxi 5.5 OMEA and a few VMs, but that isn't the important part hereAs a test for the H700...
View Article[POWEREDGE 2900 / RAID 50] LOST RAID CONFIGURATION AFTER DISK FAILURE
Dear All- need help here:Had RAID 50 configured with 10 disks in a Dell PowerEdge 2900. After a couple of year's of good use, today the system became unresponsive. After checking the system, it showed...
View Article[POWEREDGE 2900 / PERC 6/i RAID 50] Lost RAID configuration after disk failure
[Don't see my last message making it through to the board so re-sending. Apologies in advance if there have been duplicates]Hi All- need help from someone on this desperately:Have a Dell PowerEdge 2900...
View ArticleUpgrading from SATA 1TB drive to SAS 2TB drive in R620 server
Hi,I have a R620 with a Perc H710 Mini Raid. I currently have 3 1TB SATA drives in a RAID 5 config and need more disk space. Unfortunately I have the backplane that only supports up to 4 drives.I...
View ArticleLow negotiated speed after HDD upgrade
I have a Dell Power edge T105 running Windows Server 2008 R2. It has a SAT 6ir controller. The original WE RE 500GB discs were running out of space so these have been replaced with WD 2TB RE drives....
View ArticleRaid on PowerEdge T430
Hello,after years on HP servers we are planning to purchase a Dell PowerEdge T430 with 8 hot-swap 3.5" HDD slots.I have a couple of doubts:1. HP's servers are really "close" and they get problems if...
View ArticleHard Disk Dell PowerEdge 2950 failed
Hi,My server model PowerEdge 2950 with Six 1TB HD and It was build with RAID 5. Now two HDs was failed so I cannot boot into Windows. I would like to know how can I get all data from drive D in those...
View ArticlePoweredge 13th generation chassis compatibility
Hello all. I've a Poweredge T320 with x8 3.5" hot-swap chassis. I'd like to buy another poweredge T630 with a x18 3.5" hot-swap chassis and move some of the disks installed on the T320 to the T630. All...
View Article2900 Foreign Configure are disk replacement
HiWe've just had a disk replaced in a raid 10 array (4 disks) as it had failed.When the server booted back up it's claiming a foreign config.Any help would be great.The controller is a Perc 6iWe've...
View ArticleTrying to Perform SBS2008 Full Image Restore to PE T410
I have a PE T410 server that encountered a power supply failure at the worst possible time. I was able to source a replacement power supply and server now powers on, but OS is corrupted and will not...
View ArticlePoweredge 1950 with a single 1Tb 3.5inch SATA hdd
Hello,I am planning on installing a 1TB Sata HDD in my Poweredge 1950, but I am unsure if it will accept a single HDD with no other drives installed, also will it accept a 1TB SATA HDD.
View ArticleChanging a failing disk - Dell Poweredge RAID H310 - RAID 1
Hi guys,Thanks for all you support in these forums. I'm new here.We've got a Dell PowerEdge T320 server on my new job place. There is Dell Poweredge RAID H310 controller on it. It is configured as...
View ArticleChange to larger hard drives in Raid 1
Hi,I have a PowerEdge R710 with 4 x 250 Gb, SATA, 7.200 RPM Hotswap drives. OS is Windows SBS 2011. The drives run in Raid 1. One drive with the OS and one drive with data, and the other two drives are...
View ArticleRAID 5 for PowerEdge R410
I've got an old PowerEdge R410. The current controller is the SAS 6/iR integrated which only supports RAIDS 0 and 1. I need to do RAID 5. I found a cheap PERC 6i RAID WY335 on eBay but it didn't...
View ArticleH710P, configure via OpenManage?
We have a T620 server with H710P SAS RAID controller. On our 610 we could add hot spares via IDRAQ, don't seem to be able to do that with the 620. If I install OpenManage (we are running ESXi 5.5 on...
View ArticleExpand virtual drives in raid6 with perc6i controller
I have a PowerEdge R610 with 6 146GB drives (all drive slots full). These are configured into 3 virtual disks with Raid 6 configuration. Capacity of one of the drives is nearing capacity.Problem: need...
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